CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Tue Jul 13 19:25:01 PDT 2004


At 4:22 PM -0700 7/13/04, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:23:38PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>  a) how about if we print a warning and exit if DESTDIR is
>>     not defined?  Are there "important" uses of `make world'
>>     which do not use DESTDIR?
>
>My thoughts exactly. See attached patch.

Actually, the target should end with some kind of failure, in
case someone has a script that does:
      make world && do-next-thing

if we change `make world' to do nothing, then sequences like
this should error-out right away.  So I think it should have
a "false" command after all the @echo's...

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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